1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:05,169 --> 00:00:08,009 A summary of the Tafsir of al-Tabari. 3 00:00:08,630 --> 00:00:12,710 Abridged by Dr. ‘Aqil ibn Salim al-Shamr. 4 00:00:14,109 --> 00:00:16,309 Surah Yasin. 5 00:00:18,460 --> 00:00:22,539 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 6 00:00:23,820 --> 00:00:30,820 “Did I not charge you, O ye sons of Adam, that ye worship not the devil - Lo! he is your open foe! -” (36:60) 7 00:00:31,019 --> 00:00:36,420 Indeed, he is a clear enemy to you. 8 00:00:36,740 --> 00:00:42,780 And that you should worship Me; this is the straight path. 9 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:50,859 Did I not enjoin upon you, O people, in the worldly life, not to worship Satan, lest you obey him in disobedience to Allah? 10 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:55,659 Indeed, Satan is an enemy to you, and he has made his enmity toward you manifest. 11 00:00:56,189 --> 00:01:02,310 And did I not command you to worship Me alone, to the exclusion of all other deities and rivals? 12 00:01:02,630 --> 00:01:08,069 For the sincerity of My worship and the disobedience of Satan is the straight path. 13 00:01:09,219 --> 00:01:18,620 “Yet he hath led astray of you a great multitude. Had ye then no sense?” (36:62) 14 00:01:19,790 --> 00:01:24,109 And indeed, Satan has led astray a great multitude of you from His obedience. 15 00:01:24,549 --> 00:01:27,750 Did you not then possess reason, O polytheists? 16 00:01:28,189 --> 00:01:32,549 That it is not fitting for you to obey your enemy and the enemy of Allah. 17 00:01:34,049 --> 00:01:40,489 “This is hell which ye were promised (if ye followed him).” (36:63) 18 00:01:40,849 --> 00:01:46,129 “Burn therein this day for that ye disbelieved.” (36:64) 19 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:53,060 This is Hell, which you were promised in the worldly life for your disbelief in Allah. 20 00:01:53,579 --> 00:01:56,140 Burn in it today, and endure it. 21 00:01:56,620 --> 00:02:00,819 Because you used to deny it in the worldly life and treat it as a lie. 22 00:02:02,390 --> 00:02:08,189 “This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn.” (36:65) 23 00:02:08,550 --> 00:02:16,469 “This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn.” (36:65) 24 00:02:17,849 --> 00:02:20,729 Today, We shall set a seal upon the mouths of the polytheists. 25 00:02:21,210 --> 00:02:25,610 Their hands will speak to Us of what they committed in the worldly life of disobedience to Allah. 26 00:02:26,169 --> 00:02:31,009 And their feet will bear witness to what they used to earn in the worldly life of sins. 27 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,479 And if We willed, We could have blinded them, depriving them of guidance. 28 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:51,800 So they would not be able to see the way. 29 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:53,719 So they would hasten to the path. 30 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,560 But in what direction would they be able to proceed? 31 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,120 For We have blinded their eyes, so how could they be guided to the truth? 32 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:17,310 “And had We willed, We verily could have fixed them in their place, making them powerless to go forward or turn back.” (36:67) 33 00:03:18,789 --> 00:03:24,030 And if We willed, We could have paralyzed these polytheists in their places. 34 00:03:24,629 --> 00:03:29,469 So they would not be able to move forward, nor would they be able to return. 35 00:03:40,060 --> 00:03:42,939 And he whom We grant long life, We reverse his development. 36 00:03:43,379 --> 00:03:47,500 We return him to a state like his childhood, in terms of frailty and old age. 37 00:03:48,060 --> 00:03:52,340 So he becomes knowing nothing after the knowledge he once possessed. 38 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:57,699 Do these polytheists not use their reason to grasp Allah’s power over whatever He wills? 39 00:03:58,139 --> 00:04:05,180 By witnessing what they observe of His disposal of His creation as He wills and pleases, from infancy to old age. 40 00:04:19,180 --> 00:04:24,620 We have not taught Muhammad poetry, nor is it fitting for him to be a poet. 41 00:04:25,259 --> 00:04:32,620 Muhammad is but a reminder to you, O people, by which Allah reminds you through sending him to you. 42 00:04:33,259 --> 00:04:42,139 And this which Muhammad has brought to you is a Qur'an, making it clear to whoever contemplates it with intellect and heart that it is a revelation from Allah. 43 00:04:50,430 --> 00:04:57,810 Muhammad is but a reminder to you, to warn those among you, O people, who are alive of heart. 44 00:04:58,290 --> 00:05:05,889 Who understands what is said to him, and the punishment is justified against those who disbelieve in Allah and turn away from following it. 45 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:29,500 “And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food?” (36:72) 46 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:39,279 Do these polytheists not see that We have created for them, from what Our hands have fashioned, that which We have created? 47 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,680 Livestock: camels, cattle, and sheep. 48 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,040 They are subject to them, to use as they wish, through their dominance and control over them. 49 00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:56,399 We have made these livestock subservient to them; some they ride, such as camels, for their travels. 50 00:05:56,879 --> 00:05:59,439 And some of them they eat. 51 00:06:09,649 --> 00:06:15,089 And they have other benefits in these livestock, in their wool, their fur, and their hair. 52 00:06:15,649 --> 00:06:18,129 And drinks, for they consume their milk. 53 00:06:18,769 --> 00:06:24,689 Will they not then be grateful for this blessing of Mine by obeying Me and singling Me out in divinity and worship? 54 00:06:34,750 --> 00:06:39,949 Yet these polytheists have taken deities other than Allah, whom they worship. 55 00:06:40,350 --> 00:06:43,949 Hoping that they might help them against the punishment and torment of Allah. 56 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:57,759 These deities cannot help them against Allah if He intends any harm for them. 57 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,959 These polytheists are like an army brought forth for their deities in the worldly life. 58 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,319 They become angry on their behalf and fight in their defense. 59 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,040 Yet they (the idols) can neither bring them any good nor ward off any evil from them. 60 00:07:11,519 --> 00:07:13,519 They are merely idols. 61 00:07:21,139 --> 00:07:25,699 “So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim.” (36:76) 62 00:07:27,089 --> 00:07:32,290 So do not let the words of these polytheists grieve you, O Muhammad, when they say you are a poet. 63 00:07:33,089 --> 00:07:37,329 We know that what drives them to say that is envy. 64 00:07:37,970 --> 00:07:41,730 For they know that what you have brought them is not poetry. 65 00:07:42,370 --> 00:07:47,089 We know what they conceal of their knowledge of the truth of what you call them to. 66 00:07:47,569 --> 00:07:51,970 And what they declare of their denial of it with their tongues openly. 67 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,939 Does this human being, who says such things, not see? 68 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:15,819 “And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?” (36:78) 69 00:08:16,379 --> 00:08:21,019 That We created him from a drop of fluid, then fashioned him into a complete human being. 70 00:08:21,579 --> 00:08:24,060 Yet he becomes an open adversary to his Lord. 71 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:29,740 It is clear to anyone who hears his argument that he is disputing with his Lord who created him. 72 00:08:42,399 --> 00:08:44,720 And he presents us with a comparison, saying: 73 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:47,679 “And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?” (36:78) 74 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,480 He makes us like one who is unable to bring such creation back to life. 75 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:56,159 And he forgets how We created him in the first place. 76 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:01,919 He should know that He who created him from a drop of fluid until he became a complete human being. 77 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:09,039 Is not incapable of restoring decayed bones to the form they were in before they perished. 78 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:18,740 Say, O Muhammad, to this polytheist: 79 00:09:19,220 --> 00:09:25,330 He who brought them into existence the first time, when they were nothing, will give them life. 80 00:09:25,889 --> 00:09:28,289 And He is, of all creation, fully knowing. 81 00:09:28,690 --> 00:09:32,769 How He causes death, how He gives life, and how He originates. 82 00:09:48,659 --> 00:09:54,669 He who produces for you fire from the green tree, with which you kindle fire. 83 00:09:55,070 --> 00:09:58,750 So you use this tree to light your fires. 84 00:09:59,149 --> 00:10:01,950 Nothing is impossible for Him to do if He wills it. 85 00:10:02,269 --> 00:10:06,190 And He is not incapable of reviving bones that have decayed. 86 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:16,019 “Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator,” (36:81) 87 00:10:16,179 --> 00:10:21,220 “Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator,” (36:81) 88 00:10:22,820 --> 00:10:29,379 Is He who created the heavens and the earth not able to create the likes of them? 89 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:36,179 For the creation of the likes of them from decayed bones is not greater than the creation of the heavens and the earth. 90 00:10:36,659 --> 00:10:39,700 Rather, He is fully capable of creating the likes of them. 91 00:10:40,019 --> 00:10:42,259 And He is the Creator of all that He wills. 92 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:44,580 The Doer of all that He intends. 93 00:10:45,059 --> 00:10:47,940 The All-Knowing of everything He has created and will create. 94 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:58,559 “But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is.” (36:82) 95 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:07,440 “Therefor Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the dominion over all things! Unto Him ye will be brought back.” (36:83) 96 00:11:08,740 --> 00:11:14,340 “But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is.” (36:82) 97 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:19,299 So exalted is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things and their treasures. 98 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:23,620 And to Him you will be returned and brought after your death.